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Ideas about and hypotheses concerning our environment are formulated as “models”. These models should express the essentials of the environment in a simplified and easyto-understand manner. Models are images of reality or of our understanding of reality. Every scientific perception bears this model character. Scientific research is composed of two complementary areas: The generation of hypotheses and their validation. In 1934, K.L. Popper stated in his monograph “Logik Der Forschung” (see [316]):
“Die Tätigkeit des wissenschaftlichen Forschers besteht darin, Sätze oder Systeme von Sätzen aufzustellen and systematisch zu überprüfen; in den empirischen Wissenschaften sind es insbesondere die Hypothesen, Theoriesysteme, die aufgestellt and an der Erfahrung, durch Beobachtung and Experiment überprüft werden.”
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Godehardt, E. (1988). Introduction, Basic Concepts. In: Graphs as Structural Models. Advances in System Analysis. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-96310-9_2
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